Healing is not simply the reduction of symptoms; it is the restoration of a fully lived human life.

For more than twenty years, I have worked with individuals recovering from trauma, nervous system dysregulation, and patterns of disconnection that leave people feeling stuck in survival rather than living.

My approach integrates modern neuroscience, somatic psychology, and contemplative practices to support whole-person healing. Rather than focusing only on symptom management, the work focuses on restoring the nervous system, reconnecting with the body, and helping individuals reclaim meaningful engagement with life.

My entire life prepared me for this work: the path to integration. To wholeness. I sought out every path possible to understand what it means to be human, how to live in a world where we know how to suffer more than we know how to love. Like the historical Buddha, Siddartha Gautama, I had the same burning need to know the answer to that question .

My professional training includes:

  • EMDR therapy

  • Internal Family Systems–informed approaches

  • neurofeedback and nervous system regulation

  • polyvagal-informed interventions

  • mindfulness-based practices

Over time, my work has increasingly focused on helping people reconnect with their own embodied experience and restore the natural capacities for presence, agency, and resilience that trauma can interrupt.

If you are interested in exploring this approach, you are welcome to schedule an initial consultation to discuss your goals and determine whether this work feels like a good fit. Most o that myf my clients have told me their soma recognized they needed to be here just by reading my website.

If you’d like to know more:

My name is Elizabeth Ostolozaga, a traditional Spanish Basque name. I am a licensed psychotherapist, (CSW-PIP). I am a New York City native, transplant to the Hills now 11 years. NYC is nothing if not a teeming, diverse, ecosystem, which gifted me with both breadth and depth of experience, both personally and professionally.  

I completed my education and training mainly in New York City, where I was born and raised. I completed 3 years of a Ph.D. Clinical Psychology program, until a developed a very painful condition that took several years to manage. That was actually a blessing because it forced me to enter embodiment at a level that I would otherwise not have been able to do. Necessity is the mother of invention. So I figured it out. And what I did unlocked everything else. It showed me what it means to be a human being. What our true condition is. Embodiment is not merely the state of having a body, it is the union of consciousness and our somatic state. When the relationship between them is what nature intended, your mind can regulate your body. They become one. Before that, I completed my college degree in Manhattan, along with my CASAC (credentialed alcohol and substance abuse counseling certification), MSW in Clinical Social Work. I obtained EMDR certification early on,  as well as my postgraduate psychoanalytic and psychodynamic training. I don't mean to neglect other valuable trainings, such as Gestalt, Hakomi, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, and Hypnotherapy, among others.

Starting in 2000, when I began working in a clinical role (beginning as an alcohol and substance abuse counselor), I developed a specialization in trauma, especially complex trauma, due to the frequency with which it presents itself in addictions treatment. The way that our body is prepared to deal with traumatic experience taught me how organic most symptoms really are. They are a natural response to unnatural conditions, prompting us to take notice and to take care of what is out of balance. Our modern life is so alienated from the principles of embodiment that the DSM— the Bible of Diagnoses— keeps ballooning with every new edition, currently outdoing the old phone books we had back in the day.

I relocated to the Black Hills from NYC in early 2015. I am grateful for all my experiences in NYC, one of the most vibrant and turbocharged laboratories in the world. I am grateful to all my clients who gave me the privilege of allowing me into their inner sanctum, and in so doing, deepened my understanding of the human condition and how to go about transforming it. 

The Black Hills is the perfect complement: it allows deeper entrance because of the peace, the serenity, and the space, with its’ abundant energies needed for deep integrative work. During my time here, I had the peace of mind, the space, and the tranquility to be able to complete my life’s work, in a manner of speaking.